This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, offers analysis, commentary, and reportage about the $4.9 billion project to build the Barclays Center arena and 16 high-rise buildings at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Dubbed Atlantic Yards by developer Forest City Ratner in 2003, it was rebranded Pacific Park in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Greenland Group bought a 70% stake in 15 towers. New York State still calls it Atlantic Yards. Contact: AtlanticYardsReport[at]hotmail.com

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner is having a press conference/photo opportunity today at 1 pm to show a module lift at the site for B2, the world's tallest modular building, but below is an earlier view of the process.

Perhaps reporters at the press conference will ask exactly how modular construction will have less community impacts, as billed.

Yes, there will be fewer concrete trucks and a faster construction schedule, but, based on the video of the first mod delivered, modular construction seems to promise a lot of middle-of-the-night beeping and honking.

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Anyone able to verify whether this really is the world's tallest modular structure? We've got plenty of "biggest" and "tallest", etc., items in this country which are about as honest in worldwide comparison as The World Series (of part of North America...)